The Zebra V-301 is a refillable, stainless steel fountain pen with a durable metal body and hard plastic grip. The cap easily pulls off to reveal a medium point stainless steel nib. The pen matches the style of the Zebra F-301 ballpoint pen.

Customer Reviews

Well all the statements are true about feed being not reliable. Thats a
challange. inserted 2mil piece of brass shim in the nibs slot, squeezed the tips
togather with needle nose pliers then used a converter from a Lamay Safari
(Tight fit) filled with private reserve DC purple the pen now works flawlessly
(did a little nib smoothing too.) NOW the pen is as good as any and actually
better than the Lamy the converter came from altogather took about 15 mins to
make a perfect little knock-about pen. the flow problem is the ink in the
supplied cartridge it is way too saturated with solids. empty the cartridge and
refill with private reserve and the flow problem will disappear. In defense of
the pen, I have had to do far more work on some really high dollar pen to get
then working this good.

This pen feels and looks really cheap, and it uses proprietary ink cartridges
that only come in watery blue and black. There's no converter available, and
it's not a candidate for ED conversion because of the metal body and gigantic
hole at the end. Like many others here, I have trouble getting it to write
properly.

i grabbed this on a quick office supply run at my local drug store and seeing
that it was 3 bucks i thought i'd give it a try. typical zebra look which I
like, cap posts with a solid click with no rattling. I had a slight problem
getting the ink cartridge to go in all the way at first but once it was in there
stayed in with no problem. my only criticism is that it skips rather often and
is pretty unforgiving as far as to the position you have to hold it in to write
with it, pretty much the same way every time, even if the surface youre writing
on is flat. also, its pretty scratchy to write with, which annoys me as I'm
really a scribbler and don't like having resistance when I write (you might).
that being said, when it does work it lays a nice line and the ink is a nice
black. for 3 bucks its a pretty decent fountain pen.

If you can get it to write, it writes great. Smooth, wet, etc. But as soon as
you stop for any longer than about two seconds, the nib is dry and it takes five
minutes of shaking, fiddling, and pressing the nib every which way to get the
ink flowing again. This would be a great pen if it would allow me to stop and
think for a moment before starting on the next paragraph.